{"id":243912,"date":"2026-09-11T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/4-6-billion-year-old-meteorite-reveals-a-surprisingly-strong-primordial-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:30:10","slug":"4-6-billion-year-old-meteorite-reveals-a-surprisingly-strong-primordial-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/4-6-billion-year-old-meteorite-reveals-a-surprisingly-strong-primordial-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals a Surprisingly Strong Primordial Magnetic Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4-6-billion-year-old-meteorite-reveals-a-surprisingly-strong-primordial-magnetic-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient meteorite minerals reveal a surprisingly strong magnetic field from the solar system\u2019s first 200,000 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 4.6 billion years ago, before the Sun and planets existed in their familiar forms, the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust. Within a few million years, this \u201csolar nebula\u201d collapsed and flattened into a disk, setting the stage for matter to gather into the Sun and the planets that orbit it.<\/p>\n<p>Gravity has long been considered the main force behind this transformation. New evidence from some of the oldest known meteorite material, however, suggests that magnetism was also involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient meteorite minerals reveal a surprisingly strong magnetic field from the solar system\u2019s first 200,000 years. About 4.6 billion years ago, before the Sun and planets existed in their familiar forms, the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust. Within a few million years, this \u201csolar nebula\u201d collapsed and flattened into a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}